Why La. will still pay more for health care

8:32 PM,
Jun. 4, 2014

Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer

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Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer
Guest Columnist

How much does the average Louisianan pay for health care? Too damn much. Roughly 17 percent of your income goes towards your health care, on average. Now research from Harvard shows that health care spending will grow faster than the economy for at least the next 20 years.

Obamacare was supposed to prevent this - but it can't. Rather than reform health care, Obamacare merely expanded health insurance - a costly system that leaves patients behind and is largely responsible for spiraling costs.

Americans know this intuitively. Any mention of health insurance elicits moans and groans. This is ...